The raffle went very well. So much so they had another gun raffled also.
CSGV is not happy because Ladd actually broke his usual weekend rest and posted the link to the article in the Arizona Daily Star where the author bemoans the poor taste of Arizonans trying to get not a gun but two for cheap and after U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot eight months ago. Apparently nobody else in Pima County has been shot ever since if we go by what the Antis are saying.
The comment section was a give and take between the two usual factions with the race card thrown at the earliest possible. But the best of the best of comments was the following response to a race baiter and quite appropriate:
Made of 100% USDA approved WIN!
[…] Miguel is busy documenting their reaction as well. […]
Selling or raffling a firearm of a very common brand, even in a city where a criminal used the same brand of firearm to do criminal things a few months ago, shouldn’t be any more controversial than a car dealership still selling a very common brand of cars the week after a drunk driver driving the same brand destroys someone’s family.
Reminds me of the USATODAY article on the Nebraska mall shooting a few years back where they claimed the shooter used a Glock AR15.
CNN reported it to be an SKS, but Wikipedia says it was an AKM